00:00You each claim that the other is responsible for an automobile accident.
00:03Correct.
00:03Correct.
00:04This automobile accident happened where?
00:06Arlington, Texas.
00:07What time?
00:079.30 p.m.
00:08Dark. On what date?
00:09July 21st.
00:10Of this year?
00:11Yes, ma'am.
00:11What kind of car were you driving?
00:12A 2018 Nissan Altima. I had just purchased not even 30 days beforehand.
00:18And you had full coverage on this car?
00:19Yes, ma'am.
00:20With a deductible?
00:21Of $2,000.
00:23And what kind of car were you driving?
00:24I had a 2001 F-150 pickup.
00:26And on the 21st of July, 2018, at 9.30 p.m., was that car insured?
00:30Yes, ma'am.
00:31For liability?
00:32Yes, ma'am.
00:33Okay. Go over to your chart.
00:35Oh, please.
00:37On 9.30, July 21st, Your Honor, I was at the stoplight right here.
00:42And the defendant was here, and we were waiting for the light to change.
00:46When the light changed, I proceeded out to go into my lane that way.
00:49And all of a sudden, all I heard was a car smashed right into the back of me.
00:52Boom. If it was any harder, it would have pushed me over the overall.
00:55And what part of the car was hit?
00:57This whole bumper part right here.
00:58Do you have a photo of the car?
00:59Yes, ma'am.
01:00How much? I'd like to see it.
01:16Have you had the car fixed?
01:17No, still at the shop, Your Honor.
01:19When did you take it in?
01:20That Monday, which would probably have been 21st, 24th.
01:24What's it doing there for months?
01:26Because I filed the claim with his insurance.
01:28The insurance company had said that they were going to go through all the damages and see if they had enough for a claim to pay for the damages.
01:36And then a month later, the insurance suggested to call me and said that, since I didn't have a police report, that they weren't going to pay for the damages.
01:42But I can put in for medical, and I don't have $3,800 to fix that vehicle.
01:48Well, you need only $2,000 because you have full coverage on the car.
01:52I don't have $2,000, Your Honor.
01:53But that's what it would be if you used your insurance.
01:56Right.
01:56Okay.
01:56Have you notified your insurance company?
01:58No, Your Honor, I didn't.
01:59Why not?
01:59Because I didn't want my insurance to go up.
02:01I just purchased this vehicle, and it would have been up, went up.
02:04That's what insurance is for.
02:05I know.
02:05There are four lanes at this intersection.
02:07The left lane is a left turn only lane.
02:10The next lane over, the one I was in.
02:11No, I see the arrows.
02:12Okay.
02:13So what you're saying is.
02:14I'm going straight.
02:14You're going straight, and the plaintiff tried to make a left turn from the center lane.
02:18That's not correct.
02:19The plaintiff turned left into me as I was going straight.
02:22I hit the brake.
02:24We pulled off over here on the access road or on the overpass by the thing.
02:28I got out.
02:29Check on her.
02:30She immediately starts screaming at the top of her lungs.
02:32No, that wasn't true.
02:33Shh, I don't.
02:34He didn't interrupt you.
02:35I don't want you to interrupt him.
02:36She said, you're going to pay for my stuff.
02:38It started with an S, but it wasn't stuff.
02:41Then she started going over and over again.
02:43I got to call someone.
02:43Roger, Robert, someone.
02:45I don't know.
02:45So I went back to my truck because, as obviously, I wasn't going to be able to communicate.
02:49Told my son to call the police.
02:51He dialed 911.
02:52Twenty minutes later, two Grand Prairie officers showed up.
02:55One went to her car, took her statement.
02:57Do you have that police report?
02:58Yes, ma'am.
02:58I sure do.
02:59I'd like to see it.
03:01This is the report from the officer that was with me.
03:06I was with Officer Reed.
03:14Your Honor.
03:14Just a second.
03:16They didn't ask for any information?
03:19No, Your Honor.
03:20What the officer said, what Officer Reed said to me.
03:22You can't tell me what the officer said to you.
03:24It's not in this report.
03:25Right.
03:25I have video footage to show exactly where our vehicles were because we were at a stop flight.
03:30Okay.
03:30I'd like to see it.
03:34Where did you obtain this video from?
03:36There is a corner store right there at the corner.
03:39Okay.
03:39And you got it from them?
03:40Yes, ma'am.
03:41Oh, great.
03:41Okay.
03:44Well, clearly she's in the lane closer to the left.
03:50Sir, your truck is in that lane.
03:54Her car is farther from yours.
03:59From that camera.
04:00I can't tell.
04:00I can.
04:02I can.
04:03Your Altima is in front of him.
04:05Correct.
04:06Correct.
04:07Right.
04:07No, your car is in that lane, sir.
04:10Not in that lane.
04:11Your car is in that lane.
04:12Charge him for the plaintiff in the amount of $2,000.
04:14We're finished.
04:15alpha.
04:15Mist of gold.
04:15Up.
04:16Up.
04:16Good night.
04:24Come on.
04:43Good night.
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